Johnny Miller refuses to autograph a Titleist
(This post is one of an ongoing series about my experience at The Champion’s Challenge)
Watched Johnny Miller hit some range balls next to Kevin Stadler and Nancy Lopez for a little while.
When Johnny was done I gave my 11 year old daughter a golf ball and sent her over to Johnny for an autograph. My daughter came back with a disappointed look on her face. She’d handed Johnny the Titleist I gave her to Johnny and he said “I can’t sign that ball. If I sign anything other than a Callaway ball I’d be shot.”
I bet that is a stipulation in your Callaway contract eh Johnny? “Page 44, paragraph 3, line 17 states: You will not autograph any merchandise from a Callaway competitor or you will be shot. Should anyone ask for your autograph on said merchandise, you will refuse the autograph, act inconvenienced and treat them like dirt.”
Memo to Mr. Miller: Callaway doesn’t know or care what you sign. Hell, they’re just trying to stay in business right now.
Thanks Johnny. Real nice. You’ve made a new fan out of my daughter who just thinks you’re a grumpy old golfer.
Tom and Jerry
“ALERT: Due to inclement weather, the start of round one at The INTERNATIONAL is delayed until Friday at 9 a.m. ET.”
Couldn’t watch The International today due to a rain delay so I watched the next best thing.
Just tell me when you think I need a psychological evaluation…
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Meeting some famous golfers
Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
Categories: Champions Tour • Miscellaneous • PGA Tour
Categories: Champions Tour • Miscellaneous • PGA Tour
(This post is one of an ongoing series about my experience at The Champion’s Challenge)
At The Champion’s Challenge I got to meet a bunch of pretty famous golfers.
Hale Irwin (pictured putting) walked right by me and I told my kids to track him down and get an autograph. He disappeared into the crowd and the kids didn’t know who he was so they missed him. Somehow my kids got his autograph later in the day and I didn’t even see where or when. Good job kiddies.
Then about 10 seconds later, Fuzzy Zoeller walked by me. He walked in kind of a flowing, sauntering fashion. He didn’t stop when I asked for an autograph on my Masters flag, he just held his hand out while walking. He walked right through the autograph and held the flag behind him and actually never looked at me through the whole process. I’m not a big Fuzzy fan after his Tiger comments, but I want Masters champions on my flag and he is one.
My Jack Nicklaus experience
Written by: Tony Korologos | Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
Categories: Champions Tour • Miscellaneous • PGA Tour
Categories: Champions Tour • Miscellaneous • PGA Tour
(This post is one of an ongoing series about my experience at The Champion’s Challenge)
OK, I’ve had a day to recover from having one of my life long dreams realized: Meeting Jack.
Here’s the story…
This event was a pretty casual one, hosted by Johnny Miller at Thanksgiving Point. It marked the 2nd time I’ve watched Jack play. The first was a Senior Tour event where he was paired up with Arnold Palmer & Lee Trevino. Anyway, this event was a pro-am (what I call “hit and giggle”) and the play was terribly slow. So there was a ton of waiting on the tee shots and waiting on the 2nd shots on par 5’s and 4’s.
We got there early to see some of the pros on the range and putting green. We found all the pro’s carts (yes, they were riding) and bags. All the carts had bags on them but Jack’s. I stood right by Jack’s cart hoping to get an autograph before he teed off. But right before the shotgun time, someone drove his cart away. He was hiding somewhere else…
The tourney started and we found out that Jack started on the 11th hole. So my 3 kids and I headed toward the 11th. We caught Jack teeing off on the 12th hole of this unbelievably long course (over 7700 yards). The shot you see here of his finish is his approach on that par 4. Naturally his shot ended up about 12 feet over the flag where he made the birdie putt.
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